4G to bring more babble

Great Wired 4G Article in Wired last week describing some of the 4G initiatives coming.

The article discusses some of the challenges we face with 3G technology, some of the promises of 4G but also some of the 4G challenges. What's very interesting is the competing technologies. You'd think that we'd have learned the value of open architectures and technologies by now and we would expect some convergence in this area but it seems there will be lots of competing technologies based on different standards and proprietary technologies

At the same time you'd also expect that we'd have learned at this point that open standards are not always in the best interest of large platform players and that they want to try and lock people in. So we should expect the divergence in technologies.

So the consumer will end up with lots of choices but also with lots of headaches based on those choices. (Just look at the amount of hassle competing 3G technologies cause us).

And so we look forward to the 4G promise but are also weary of the all the competing technologies.